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Article #991Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
From: David Kinny
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 11:51
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 11:51
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In article <1990Jul19.004300.19165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy) writes:
>The editor of a newspaper is not censoring when he edits out cuss words
>from the baseball player who was tagged out at home.
>
>I ain't saying what the FSF did was a good thing, it just ain't
>censorship.
I haven't got Webster's handy, but the Concise Oxford defines censorship as
"suppressing whole or parts of books, plays, films, letters, NEWS, etc.
on the grounds of OBSCENITY, seditiousness, etc." (emphasis mine)
i.e. precisely what you claim above is NOT censorship.
>#>...Please learn the difference
>#> between censorship and editing.
>#
>#If you would teach, first know.
>
>I do.
You clearly don't, as you have made obvious to the world.
>-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!yarra-glen!dnk From: dnk@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (David Kinny) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works Summary: Censorship, exactly. Message-ID: <2136@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au> Date: 19 Jul 90 11:51:59 GMT References: <1990Jul18.145521.11726@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Jul18.211712.27198@ico.isc.com> <1990Jul19.004300.19165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: Australian AI Institute Lines: 34